- April 23, 2024
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May 30
A foul crime
2:39 p.m. — First block of Rainbrook Drive
Criminal mischief: Someone spray-painted the word “fart” in bright orange across the garage door of a bank-owned home overnight, and used to same paint to emblazon “objects similar to circles” across the trunk of a Mercedes parked in front of another nearby home, according to Sheriff’s Office reports.
The miscreant also pulled the mailbox at the bank-owned property off its post, and left it on the ground. A deputy took photos of the damage, but there were no witnesses to the crime, and no suspects.
May 26
Mr. Clean mischief makers?
9:19 a.m. — First block of Corporate Drive, Palm Coast
Car break/criminal mischief: Sometime between 3 p.m. Friday, May 22, and 7 a.m. Saturday, May 23, somebody entered a parked school bus and emptied a fire extinguisher all over the interior, according to Sheriff’s Office reports.
But the bus driver, a 60-year-old man, told the deputy that whoever had sprayed the fire extinguisher had also opened the windows and “attempted to clean up the white residue using a broom that was hanging over the door to the bus,” according to a deputy’s report.
A woman who works for the school district told a deputy she’d had trouble with kids riding their bikes in the area at night and damaging property, and that she'd called the Sheriff’s Office about them before, and told them to stay off the property where the theft occurred.
The driver thought that whoever sprayed the extinguisher may have been playing with the bus’ controls, too.
The cost to clean the bus will be about $125, and the fire extinguisher will cost about $40 to replace, according to the Sheriff's Office report.
May 27
When a move goes wrong
2:47 p.m. — Second block of Berkshire Lane
Larceny: A 66-year-old woman moving to Palm Coast from Virginia filed a complaint against her mover, who she said had been intimidating and angry on her moving day.
But she did so before the move, and when she got to Palm Coast, $5,268 worth of the items loaded into his truck did not.
Missing items, she told a Sheriff’s Office deputy, included a 50-inch TV with DVD player, a fish wall hanging, a hutch, three pairs of boots, a Daniel Van Zyle print, and four paintings, each worth hundreds of dollars.
She told a Sheriff’s Office deputy she thought the theft may have been retaliation for the report she’d filed. The moving company, she said, hadn’t helped her get her things back.
